No, that is not information about the historical Tomas Torquemada in the Wikipedia article. It is a reasonable summary of what was thought to have been T's life and times by historians and biographers prior to the 1970 - 1990 revolution in assessing medieval European history, but much of the material available to those scholars is now suspect. Most of the "contemporary" data on T's life and work was brought to light about 30 years after his death (and, conveniently, after the deaths of all who could have directly invalidated those documents). Its accuracy is now in question. Which pretty much is my point: just about everything that is "common knowledge" about the inquisitions is either definitely wrong or very much suspect. Between monarchies and Church there has been a lot of historical revision going on.
Uh, I don't think there are any "modern" coal plants any more, not in the USA.
The economics of natural gas for electric generation have caused a lot of coal-fired generators to be mothballed. Not dismantled; there are times and circumstances where they are fired up again. But basically coal-fired electric generation plants are yesterday's technology, much like the WinXP partition many of us Linux users still have on our hard drives, since, you never know when the Ubuntu Zombie Apocalypse might happen, and besides keeping WinXP around basically costs nothing but removing it would mean having to spend a little time modifying the dual boot stuff and messing with the partition manager.
But basically this just makes parent post's argument stronger. That gas-fired electric generation is better all the way around than any ICE could ever be. Today's electric cars are okay, but they will be even better once we get the battery swapping technology figured out, and when the juice starts to get low, you call up the regional battery service and arrange a rendezvous with one of their trucks at some wide spot in the road.
Yes, I should have been more clear. The Inquisitions by the Church were smaller in scope and limited in their actions.
The primary purposes of the secular Spanish trials by inquisition seems to have been to identify those who were still practicing the Jewish or Muslim faiths, so they could be properly brought into the Christian fold by renunciation of their old ways and confession of their sins, after perhaps a bit of torture. And of course concurrent with the confiscation of their property and wealth. Finding a rich heretic was a good way for a small village tyrant to get ahead in the world.
In Spain, the role of the Church Inquisitors was actually more of a brake on going too far than supportive of the secular courts of inquisition. The Church actively opposed witchcraft trials; going after the health care workers of those times was not considered to be a good idea. You had to show that your intended victim was a heretic, not just a witch.
This was not just in Spain, either. The most accessible story about this is the death of Joan of Arc, who could not be sentenced for being a witch, but could be done away with for being a heretic.
But we digress. The main point is that none of the current popular view of European Church Inquisitions is valid; it has all been contaminated by common mistakes made by earlier researchers and of course the propagation of outright propaganda of the medieval period, such as the "Witches' Hammer".
And some people don't like the miniature panthers inside the house because the damn things are reservoirs for toxoplasmosis, which in humans causes severe birth defects and has been associated with high risk and criminal behaviors.
Keep the cats outside, where they belong. Especially if there is anyone living with you who might someday get pregnant.
The Spanish Inquisition and the other Inquisitions of the Holy Roman Church were given a bad rap by 19th and 20th century researchers into medieval history. All because of a failure to recognize that a common type of secular trial at that time was called an "inquisition". These were not religious trials, these were secular courts. A trial by inquisition was different from a trial by jury and was probably similar to the way trials in Small Claims Courts are handled in the USA today.
The religious Inquisitions were nowhere near as large in scope or as influential on daily life as many historians who wrote between 1800 and 1950 believed them to be. It was only when historians were able to use computers to develop databases from original court records that the confusion between a secular trial by inquisition and a religious trial by the Church's Inquisitors was resolved. That work started in the 1970s, but it takes a while to transcribe hundreds of years of handwritten court records into databases, and the effort only began to bear fruit around 2005.
It turns out, for instance, that the "burning times" when witches were persecuted and sometimes executed occurred several centuries later than previously thought, were about two orders of magnitude less than previous estimates, and mostly involved secular courts. In fact, there were Papal edicts barring Church Inquisitors from going after witchcraft of itself. For that matter, a lot of the secular trials by inquisition for witchcraft were dismissed outright or resolved by fines-- as when a midwife was proven negligent or the village herbalist gave somebody foot powder in place of lice-be-gone.
We now return you to your regular Slashdot rantings...
Did you have something on the kite stating that the kite was intended for use only to stimulate kids to talk about operating systems? Something that would clearly show that the kites were not to be used in any other way that might damage Ubuntu's corporate image or dilute the brand? The only place where you talked about the context in which the branding would be used was in your request. You asked Ubuntu to give you a blank permit for use on the basis of them just trusting that you would never screw them over.
Lawyers are paid to identify this kind of risk to their clients.
As to Ubuntu "riding on the coattails of Debian", that's exactly why I encourage Ubuntu's use, and use it myself. Ubuntu does a much better job than I could myself at identifying the pieces that can be put together to make a powerful distro, and doing what it takes to get those pieces to work together and play nicely with each other. Debian is a great package, but it does not provide everything I want, including the automatic update features of Ubuntu that do so much to cut down on the support I am obligated to provide to friends and family.
People have different mindsets. Perhaps your mindset is not well suited to using something like Ubuntu.
It's gotta be the end-of-voyage garbage dump. When all the crap that piles up during the months of warp speed travel is ejected from the tubes, after, of course, recovering all the H2O for the hydroponics. Put a bit of a spin on the Waste Storage / Ejection Module so none of the stuff sticks to the hull, and carefully balance the release from the six different ejection ports so the ship's trim is unaffected, and this is exactly the pattern that we would see.
Are the results of the spectrographic studies back yet? Those would tell us what the visitors have been eating, and give us some idea of what their biochemistry might be like. (I'm guessing a lot of silicon...)
Robots are not limited to vision systems only. I'm not sure there would be a need for any cameras on a WeedEater robot.
Give the robot a sense of taste and instruct it to take micro samples of every plant in its path. Those that do not taste like one of the selected crops get "eaten" as weeds and the chopped up remains left behind as mulch. The robot would easily handle multi crop fields. The "Three Sisters" could be brought back to mainstream American agriculture: corn, beans, and squash all planted together, just like in pre-Columbian times.
There is much room here for high end models. For instance, a model that would also pick off aphids one by one would be useful for some crops.
The technology to do this is within our reach, though some parts are not yet in our hands. We could do this with today's computers and sensor capabilities, and economies of scale would bring the price down very quickly. Power is a concern--- windmills with flywheel energy storage would provide enough power in many locations, but distributing the power to mobile points of use needs some thought. Maybe other robots dedicated to ferrying batteries between charging stations and field robots?
You could call this the "Monsanto killer" approach to commercial agriculture.
Interesting aside:
At what point in the development of electric cars will we start seeing battery exchange trucks on our remote freeways? When you are taking that backroads scenic route through the Great Empty Spaces of Wyoming, you (or your 2025 Tesla) calls ahead to arrange a rendezvous with a battery exchange truck every once in a while. No need to ever stop at a service station; just swap out the batteries where ever there is a convenient wide spot in the road along your chosen route. And you could let your Garmin GPS figure all that out for you!
The spring tide of an eclipse day is probably not significantly higher than any other spring tide when all other things are equal. But the existence of perigee and perihelion means that other things may not be equal.
This particular eclipse happens near perigee, as the Moon nears its closest approach to the Earth. This does make for a king tide, a high tide that is significantly higher than other spring tides. Also the Earth is coming up on perihelion in a few weeks, as parent post states, when it is at its closest approach to the Sun. That will also push the tide higher.
Additionally, Maryland is positioned relative to the line of the eclipse such that the tidal bulge will be higher at Maryland's shores than at, say New York or Georgia, that are at roughly the same longitude.
I don't see this as invasive, if it is used to monitor the quality of the sewage (yeah, that sounds funny) where pipes join together. If there was an indication of bomb or drug making activity, then more pooper snoopers could be temporarily installed upstream. At some point there would be a need for search warrants or something like that, but on the whole, the natural blending of waste products is going to be an adequate protection against invasion of privacy.
Nobody is really going to know that you pigged out on burritos.
I would think this would be an excellent way to identify meth houses, etc. While I would rather see all drugs made legal so they could be taxed and the profits would go out of the illicit drug trade, until that happens I would kind of like to see every damn meth factory on the left coast raided.
I don't think it works like that. Typically when a corporation goes public, a percentage of the stock is held in reserve: the company qua corporate person retains those shares. For things like offering stock option incentives to its employees.
So long as Ellison's stock options are not exercised, they have no direct effect on the value of stock that is being actively traded. When they are exercised, the company's reserve is depleted, but there is no direct dilution of outstanding stock. Putting more stock into active trading might have an effect, but that would be no different from any other market activity.
Ellison is taking $77 million / yr in stock options while accepting $1 / yr in salary. He has arranged that himself, since he is the Chief Executive Officer and sets corporate policy. Most shareholders are calling foul because he is abusing the corporation they own to diddle the USA taxman for his personal benefit. He also is increasing the amount of influence he can exert over the value of their shares as he manages his stock portfolio.
As an employee, he gets paid $1/yr. This is not about what he is doing as an employee.
This is about what he is doing as a corporate officer in setting company policies that award himself with $77 million/yr. This is about abusing the corporation so he can diddle the taxman (in the USA all those stock options give him an immediate amount of financial clout that he does not have to pay taxes on until he exercises them. Further, his tax rate at that time will depend on exactly how he structures the transactions that exercise those options).
But the main point is that this corporate officer is twisting company policy to his personal benefit of $77 million/yr and the majority of owners of the company don't like him screwing around with their investment that way.
Is it okay for Ellison to pay income tax on his $1 per year salary, while taking $77 million a year in stock options that won't be taxed until he decides to exercise them? And even then he has all kinds of discretion in how much tax he will pay, since there are all kinds rollover investments, etc, that he can use. The guy is poster brat for the 1%ers. If you are paying USA income tax, he is screwing you over as well as screwing the other shareholders.
The power would be cheap, once we got past the start-up costs of moving all USA industry to Montana and Wyoming. Otherwise, the cost of transmitting all that power to current points of consumption would be rather spendy. Not to mention that if it snows those lines down south would be a real strain for the Wichita Lineman, and all the rest of us who would prefer to remember the song rather than once again hearing it constantly wherever fine muzak is played.
Subject line states the case. Windows, and I believe all other Microsoft software products, have always been designed to be easy to sell. Other attributes, such as ease of use or durability in real life activities, have always been secondary, unless performance is so bad that it interferes with sales. This is the traditional consumerism approach to making products.
OTOH, FOSS software is not developed for the showroom: there is no showroom. The emphasis during development is on meeting the needs of actual users in real life activities. So different things take precedence.
Go with Windows for the very best in the latest bling. Look for a FOSS based product-- like Android or Ubuntu-- for long term, and constantly improving, real life performance. Be wary of new FOSS products; not all of them are good or have staying power, but generally the critical reviews will identify the ones that work well and are likely to continue to get better.
Now that battery performance has been brought to the public's attention in a way that is likely to hurt Microsoft's sales revenues, we can expect improvement in that behavior. Battery life simply has not been a factor that Microsoft has seen as important, until now.
Since wiki syntax has been mentioned, I'll jump in.
I now use wikitext for nearly all my writing, usually using gedit as the editor. My writing does not require the level of formating that LaTeX and its ilk are capable of. A good portion of my writing is in collaboration with others, and I want to grow that percentage since the text is consistently better when more than one person is stirring the word pot.
I've used several wiki engines since about 2003. At the moment Dokuwiki is my favorite: it has good ACL security, it handles embedded images and files okay, and it produces clean HTML5 pages. Mostly it behaves like Markdown in the way it gets out of my way when I'm using a plaintext editor.
An advantage of Dokuwiki and wikitext is that the semi-wysiwyg browser editor allows wider collaboration and effective proof-reading, by persons who don't want to learn a mark-up language, even a simple one.
When I need to do a brochure, business card, or other authoring task which is more about presentation than writing, then I use other tools. Inkscape is good, and I have done posters and slides in Gimp with little effort. But that is more about publishing than writing.
Batch biochar production has been steadily increasing for a decade, so that is not new.
But All Power Labs has developed a continuous flow process, and that is breaking new ground. These rigs could be quite useful in reducing the expense of waste management.
The last thing I want is some drunk driver flying around over my head or someone who can't wait to answer their text.
There is a simple technical solution to this. Don't put any of the flight controls in the vehicle. The driver drives to the airport, files his flight plan, and a drone controller takes over, handling everything from take-off to landing, to buzzing the Golden Gate Bridge. When the plane gets to its destination airport, the driver takes over again.
This will not only keep the air space safe, it could reduce highway traffic, and would definitely help in the post war rehabilitation of all those drone pilots we've ended up with. It would be unpatriotic not to do this way.
I'm blowing off some mod points to post this. Oh well. This is arguably more important than saying something is +1 Funny.
Homology is a term related to convergent evolution. It means that appearance of structures in different species is similar, even though the genetic history-- the evolution-- is very different. The genetics are different. This study found that the genetics between a candidate yeti and an ancient polar bear were identical. By its very definition, homoplasy is not an applicable term.
Stripping this post of connective verbiage that can be inferred, the take-away from this is that
1. While adding fancy new words to your vocabulary is commendable,
2. It is also necessary to actually learn what the new word means before using it.
Slashdot Mirror
No, that is not information about the historical Tomas Torquemada in the Wikipedia article. It is a reasonable summary of what was thought to have been T's life and times by historians and biographers prior to the 1970 - 1990 revolution in assessing medieval European history, but much of the material available to those scholars is now suspect. Most of the "contemporary" data on T's life and work was brought to light about 30 years after his death (and, conveniently, after the deaths of all who could have directly invalidated those documents). Its accuracy is now in question. Which pretty much is my point: just about everything that is "common knowledge" about the inquisitions is either definitely wrong or very much suspect. Between monarchies and Church there has been a lot of historical revision going on.
Uh, I don't think there are any "modern" coal plants any more, not in the USA.
The economics of natural gas for electric generation have caused a lot of coal-fired generators to be mothballed. Not dismantled; there are times and circumstances where they are fired up again. But basically coal-fired electric generation plants are yesterday's technology, much like the WinXP partition many of us Linux users still have on our hard drives, since, you never know when the Ubuntu Zombie Apocalypse might happen, and besides keeping WinXP around basically costs nothing but removing it would mean having to spend a little time modifying the dual boot stuff and messing with the partition manager.
But basically this just makes parent post's argument stronger. That gas-fired electric generation is better all the way around than any ICE could ever be. Today's electric cars are okay, but they will be even better once we get the battery swapping technology figured out, and when the juice starts to get low, you call up the regional battery service and arrange a rendezvous with one of their trucks at some wide spot in the road.
Yes, I should have been more clear. The Inquisitions by the Church were smaller in scope and limited in their actions.
The primary purposes of the secular Spanish trials by inquisition seems to have been to identify those who were still practicing the Jewish or Muslim faiths, so they could be properly brought into the Christian fold by renunciation of their old ways and confession of their sins, after perhaps a bit of torture. And of course concurrent with the confiscation of their property and wealth. Finding a rich heretic was a good way for a small village tyrant to get ahead in the world.
In Spain, the role of the Church Inquisitors was actually more of a brake on going too far than supportive of the secular courts of inquisition. The Church actively opposed witchcraft trials; going after the health care workers of those times was not considered to be a good idea. You had to show that your intended victim was a heretic, not just a witch.
This was not just in Spain, either. The most accessible story about this is the death of Joan of Arc, who could not be sentenced for being a witch, but could be done away with for being a heretic.
But we digress. The main point is that none of the current popular view of European Church Inquisitions is valid; it has all been contaminated by common mistakes made by earlier researchers and of course the propagation of outright propaganda of the medieval period, such as the "Witches' Hammer".
And some people don't like the miniature panthers inside the house because the damn things are reservoirs for toxoplasmosis, which in humans causes severe birth defects and has been associated with high risk and criminal behaviors.
Keep the cats outside, where they belong. Especially if there is anyone living with you who might someday get pregnant.
Mutton comes from flocks, not herds. Teh metaphor fails it.
So you prefer to continue an argument rather than accept the victory of your favorite opinion?
Do you ever have anything of value to contribute to any discussion?
Just to clarify a point of information:
The Spanish Inquisition and the other Inquisitions of the Holy Roman Church were given a bad rap by 19th and 20th century researchers into medieval history. All because of a failure to recognize that a common type of secular trial at that time was called an "inquisition". These were not religious trials, these were secular courts. A trial by inquisition was different from a trial by jury and was probably similar to the way trials in Small Claims Courts are handled in the USA today.
The religious Inquisitions were nowhere near as large in scope or as influential on daily life as many historians who wrote between 1800 and 1950 believed them to be. It was only when historians were able to use computers to develop databases from original court records that the confusion between a secular trial by inquisition and a religious trial by the Church's Inquisitors was resolved. That work started in the 1970s, but it takes a while to transcribe hundreds of years of handwritten court records into databases, and the effort only began to bear fruit around 2005.
It turns out, for instance, that the "burning times" when witches were persecuted and sometimes executed occurred several centuries later than previously thought, were about two orders of magnitude less than previous estimates, and mostly involved secular courts. In fact, there were Papal edicts barring Church Inquisitors from going after witchcraft of itself. For that matter, a lot of the secular trials by inquisition for witchcraft were dismissed outright or resolved by fines-- as when a midwife was proven negligent or the village herbalist gave somebody foot powder in place of lice-be-gone.
We now return you to your regular Slashdot rantings...
Did you have something on the kite stating that the kite was intended for use only to stimulate kids to talk about operating systems? Something that would clearly show that the kites were not to be used in any other way that might damage Ubuntu's corporate image or dilute the brand? The only place where you talked about the context in which the branding would be used was in your request. You asked Ubuntu to give you a blank permit for use on the basis of them just trusting that you would never screw them over.
Lawyers are paid to identify this kind of risk to their clients.
As to Ubuntu "riding on the coattails of Debian", that's exactly why I encourage Ubuntu's use, and use it myself. Ubuntu does a much better job than I could myself at identifying the pieces that can be put together to make a powerful distro, and doing what it takes to get those pieces to work together and play nicely with each other. Debian is a great package, but it does not provide everything I want, including the automatic update features of Ubuntu that do so much to cut down on the support I am obligated to provide to friends and family.
People have different mindsets. Perhaps your mindset is not well suited to using something like Ubuntu.
Right.
It's gotta be the end-of-voyage garbage dump. When all the crap that piles up during the months of warp speed travel is ejected from the tubes, after, of course, recovering all the H2O for the hydroponics. Put a bit of a spin on the Waste Storage / Ejection Module so none of the stuff sticks to the hull, and carefully balance the release from the six different ejection ports so the ship's trim is unaffected, and this is exactly the pattern that we would see.
Are the results of the spectrographic studies back yet? Those would tell us what the visitors have been eating, and give us some idea of what their biochemistry might be like. (I'm guessing a lot of silicon...)
Robots are not limited to vision systems only. I'm not sure there would be a need for any cameras on a WeedEater robot.
Give the robot a sense of taste and instruct it to take micro samples of every plant in its path. Those that do not taste like one of the selected crops get "eaten" as weeds and the chopped up remains left behind as mulch. The robot would easily handle multi crop fields. The "Three Sisters" could be brought back to mainstream American agriculture: corn, beans, and squash all planted together, just like in pre-Columbian times.
There is much room here for high end models. For instance, a model that would also pick off aphids one by one would be useful for some crops.
The technology to do this is within our reach, though some parts are not yet in our hands. We could do this with today's computers and sensor capabilities, and economies of scale would bring the price down very quickly. Power is a concern--- windmills with flywheel energy storage would provide enough power in many locations, but distributing the power to mobile points of use needs some thought. Maybe other robots dedicated to ferrying batteries between charging stations and field robots?
You could call this the "Monsanto killer" approach to commercial agriculture.
Interesting aside:
At what point in the development of electric cars will we start seeing battery exchange trucks on our remote freeways? When you are taking that backroads scenic route through the Great Empty Spaces of Wyoming, you (or your 2025 Tesla) calls ahead to arrange a rendezvous with a battery exchange truck every once in a while. No need to ever stop at a service station; just swap out the batteries where ever there is a convenient wide spot in the road along your chosen route. And you could let your Garmin GPS figure all that out for you!
All hail Monsanto and its no-till RoundUp Ready GMO seeds!
...oh. Wait....
But full moon eclipses are quite rare. Granted they can be devastating and in fact indicate severe climate and geologic upheavals.
I don't think parent post is quite right.
The spring tide of an eclipse day is probably not significantly higher than any other spring tide when all other things are equal. But the existence of perigee and perihelion means that other things may not be equal.
This particular eclipse happens near perigee, as the Moon nears its closest approach to the Earth. This does make for a king tide, a high tide that is significantly higher than other spring tides. Also the Earth is coming up on perihelion in a few weeks, as parent post states, when it is at its closest approach to the Sun. That will also push the tide higher.
Additionally, Maryland is positioned relative to the line of the eclipse such that the tidal bulge will be higher at Maryland's shores than at, say New York or Georgia, that are at roughly the same longitude.
I don't see this as invasive, if it is used to monitor the quality of the sewage (yeah, that sounds funny) where pipes join together. If there was an indication of bomb or drug making activity, then more pooper snoopers could be temporarily installed upstream. At some point there would be a need for search warrants or something like that, but on the whole, the natural blending of waste products is going to be an adequate protection against invasion of privacy.
Nobody is really going to know that you pigged out on burritos.
I would think this would be an excellent way to identify meth houses, etc. While I would rather see all drugs made legal so they could be taxed and the profits would go out of the illicit drug trade, until that happens I would kind of like to see every damn meth factory on the left coast raided.
I don't think it works like that. Typically when a corporation goes public, a percentage of the stock is held in reserve: the company qua corporate person retains those shares. For things like offering stock option incentives to its employees.
So long as Ellison's stock options are not exercised, they have no direct effect on the value of stock that is being actively traded. When they are exercised, the company's reserve is depleted, but there is no direct dilution of outstanding stock. Putting more stock into active trading might have an effect, but that would be no different from any other market activity.
Ellison is taking $77 million / yr in stock options while accepting $1 / yr in salary. He has arranged that himself, since he is the Chief Executive Officer and sets corporate policy. Most shareholders are calling foul because he is abusing the corporation they own to diddle the USA taxman for his personal benefit. He also is increasing the amount of influence he can exert over the value of their shares as he manages his stock portfolio.
As an employee, he gets paid $1/yr. This is not about what he is doing as an employee.
This is about what he is doing as a corporate officer in setting company policies that award himself with $77 million/yr. This is about abusing the corporation so he can diddle the taxman (in the USA all those stock options give him an immediate amount of financial clout that he does not have to pay taxes on until he exercises them. Further, his tax rate at that time will depend on exactly how he structures the transactions that exercise those options).
But the main point is that this corporate officer is twisting company policy to his personal benefit of $77 million/yr and the majority of owners of the company don't like him screwing around with their investment that way.
Is it okay for Ellison to pay income tax on his $1 per year salary, while taking $77 million a year in stock options that won't be taxed until he decides to exercise them? And even then he has all kinds of discretion in how much tax he will pay, since there are all kinds rollover investments, etc, that he can use. The guy is poster brat for the 1%ers. If you are paying USA income tax, he is screwing you over as well as screwing the other shareholders.
The power would be cheap, once we got past the start-up costs of moving all USA industry to Montana and Wyoming. Otherwise, the cost of transmitting all that power to current points of consumption would be rather spendy. Not to mention that if it snows those lines down south would be a real strain for the Wichita Lineman, and all the rest of us who would prefer to remember the song rather than once again hearing it constantly wherever fine muzak is played.
Subject line states the case. Windows, and I believe all other Microsoft software products, have always been designed to be easy to sell. Other attributes, such as ease of use or durability in real life activities, have always been secondary, unless performance is so bad that it interferes with sales. This is the traditional consumerism approach to making products.
OTOH, FOSS software is not developed for the showroom: there is no showroom. The emphasis during development is on meeting the needs of actual users in real life activities. So different things take precedence.
Go with Windows for the very best in the latest bling. Look for a FOSS based product-- like Android or Ubuntu-- for long term, and constantly improving, real life performance. Be wary of new FOSS products; not all of them are good or have staying power, but generally the critical reviews will identify the ones that work well and are likely to continue to get better.
Now that battery performance has been brought to the public's attention in a way that is likely to hurt Microsoft's sales revenues, we can expect improvement in that behavior. Battery life simply has not been a factor that Microsoft has seen as important, until now.
Since wiki syntax has been mentioned, I'll jump in.
I now use wikitext for nearly all my writing, usually using gedit as the editor. My writing does not require the level of formating that LaTeX and its ilk are capable of. A good portion of my writing is in collaboration with others, and I want to grow that percentage since the text is consistently better when more than one person is stirring the word pot.
I've used several wiki engines since about 2003. At the moment Dokuwiki is my favorite: it has good ACL security, it handles embedded images and files okay, and it produces clean HTML5 pages. Mostly it behaves like Markdown in the way it gets out of my way when I'm using a plaintext editor.
An advantage of Dokuwiki and wikitext is that the semi-wysiwyg browser editor allows wider collaboration and effective proof-reading, by persons who don't want to learn a mark-up language, even a simple one.
When I need to do a brochure, business card, or other authoring task which is more about presentation than writing, then I use other tools. Inkscape is good, and I have done posters and slides in Gimp with little effort. But that is more about publishing than writing.
Batch biochar production has been steadily increasing for a decade, so that is not new.
But All Power Labs has developed a continuous flow process, and that is breaking new ground. These rigs could be quite useful in reducing the expense of waste management.
That quote cannot be explained because it's dead wrong.
Google on "biochar". That is what All Power Labs is producing. It is a soil amendment with remarkable properties.
The last thing I want is some drunk driver flying around over my head or someone who can't wait to answer their text.
There is a simple technical solution to this. Don't put any of the flight controls in the vehicle. The driver drives to the airport, files his flight plan, and a drone controller takes over, handling everything from take-off to landing, to buzzing the Golden Gate Bridge. When the plane gets to its destination airport, the driver takes over again. This will not only keep the air space safe, it could reduce highway traffic, and would definitely help in the post war rehabilitation of all those drone pilots we've ended up with. It would be unpatriotic not to do this way.
I'm blowing off some mod points to post this. Oh well. This is arguably more important than saying something is +1 Funny.
Homology is a term related to convergent evolution. It means that appearance of structures in different species is similar, even though the genetic history-- the evolution-- is very different. The genetics are different. This study found that the genetics between a candidate yeti and an ancient polar bear were identical. By its very definition, homoplasy is not an applicable term.
Stripping this post of connective verbiage that can be inferred, the take-away from this is that
1. While adding fancy new words to your vocabulary is commendable,
2. It is also necessary to actually learn what the new word means before using it.